I have decided to end the development of HipStyles, for good. In practice it was on hold for a long time due to other commitments, but after long last, version 2.0 was released in April 2014. Now it’s time to finally close the curtain on this act.

Since November 2012, HipStyles has tracked the new gear in Hipstamatic, and provided an easy way to find shots, or HipstaPrints, taken with a specific combination of lens, film, and flash. Some iPhoneographers have found it useful, since it provides a function Hipstamatic itself doesn’t.

Here’s a summary why I think HipStyles failed to make a dent in the universe:

Lack of initial validation of the product idea

Premium pricing probably alienated many potential customers

The execution failed by some accounts: too many or wrong features, with bugs

Meeting people is easy, but saving their contact information is hard. Do you want to tap and stare at your phone, entering names, numbers and e-mails, or do you want to keep chatting with someone interesting you just met?

Meet a lot of business people? Get a lot of business cards? Like most, you’ll probably put them in a drawer and forget about them. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just grab the information straight into your phone’s address book?

Introducing introni. The smart way to capture contact information. The best way to remember the people you meet. No tapping, no pairing, no log-in, no hassle – it just works.

introni is available on the App Store now for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch now on the App Store.

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We have skipped a few point releases of HipStyles in announcements, so here’s an update.

HipStyles 1.0.9 is available on the App Store. It supports all the latest HipstaPaks as of October 2013.

The development of HipStyles has taken a backseat recently since we have focused on introni. However, there have been some experiments with proper iOS 7 support and improvements to the photo matching, so maybe later this year something will surface.

Since the recent launch of Hipstamatic Oggl we have been busy bringing HipStyles up to date in finding also the great shots you took with Oggl that end up in your iPhone’s camera roll. The recently released São Paulo HipstaPak was also quickly examined, and HipStyles was updated to find photos that use the new Madalena lens and Robusta film.

Find photos taken with Madalena + Robusta from the latest HipstaPak

While we were at it, we added the possibility to post your own Hipstamatic photos to Instagram, with a pre-filled comment that contains the actual lens, film, and flash tags from the photo. Of course, HipStyles already makes it effortless to share your shots (and others’, too) on Twitter and Facebook. (Note, however, that HipStyles will not let you post an Instagram photo back to Instagram!)

HipStyles was created to help you find your great Hipstamatic shots easily from inside your own phone, and also to bring you fresh samples of other iPhoneographers’ work posted to Instagram. As you know, when the number of HipstaPrints on your iPhone increases, it becomes very difficult to find the shots you need from inside Hipstamatic. With HipStyles, you can select any combo you like to filter the results to enjoy them, save the best shots to Favorites, and share them with your followers.

Tell us what you think of HipStyles! You can send us feedback from inside the application, or send e-mail to hipstyles (at) coniferproductions (dot) com. We also maintain a lively presence on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram.

HipStyles, the iPhone to app that finds your HipstaPrints photos with ease, has been updated to version 1.0.3, and is available on the App Store.

We’ve added the ability to like photos on Instagram straight from inside the app. Just double-tap the photo in the detail screen, or tap once on the cute little heart icon on the right side of the photo (below the tiny Instagram camera logo).

Double-tap an Instagram photo to “like” it.

Please note that if you are updating, you need to sign out of Instagram from the Settings screen, and then log back in to like photos. (Technical explanation: this is because we had to change the scope of the Instagram authentication in v1.0.3 to include the “likes” capability.) Sorry about any inconvenience with that.

Version 1.0.3 also fixes an issue with memory usage when searching for HipstaPrints photos. If you have trouble, see the help page or contact us (go to the Settings screen and select “Send feedback”).

We would appreciate if you told your Hipstamatic-using friends about HipStyles, and rated the app in the App Store. Thanks for purchasing HipStyles, and have fun searching for great fresh sample prints on Instagram, or looking for HipstaPrints on your phone that you shot with an awesome combo.

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Les Nombres, the little app that wants to teach you elementary French numbers, has been updated to version 1.5, and is now available on the App Store. The update is free to existing customers.

You are presented with a randomly chosen French number from zero to 100, in writing, and given three alternatives to choose from. You can listen to the number by tapping the Listen button. To get another number, tap Another.

Les Nombres teaches you elementary French numbers.

Version 1.5 introduces a new scoring system: for every right answer you gain a point – but if you answer wrong, you lose a point. You can also get the next number without answering, but then you also lose a point! (Until you have zero points.)

If you have reached a personal high score, you can share it with everyone on Facebook or Twitter.

Les Nombres is available in English, French, Finnish and Swedish. The Windows Phone version of Les Nombres is available on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The Android version is in the works.